The Explosion

[Doctor Phibes]

I think it's fair to say that my daughter very much needs to be back in school for her Junior year next September. Not sure how we're going to handle it at this point, TBH.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in The Explosion:

I’ve been telling my daughter to hang out her shingle for remote tutoring. She can make good money.

My daughter has been teaching summer school via zoom this past summer. It's been interesting. Also, it helps her MS is in educational technology.

[Rainman]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Explosion:

I think it's fair to say that my daughter very much needs to be back in school for her Junior year next September. Not sure how we're going to handle it at this point, TBH.

That's the really bummer part, having the best of times with friends, doing things your parents never knew about. I don't mean anything crazy, just things that kids do or say as they grow.

You can't repeat those years, unfortunately.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Rainman said in The Explosion:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Explosion:

I think it's fair to say that my daughter very much needs to be back in school for her Junior year next September. Not sure how we're going to handle it at this point, TBH.

That's the really bummer part, having the best of times with friends, doing things your parents never knew about. I don't mean anything crazy, just things that kids do or say as they grow.

To be fair, that was long gone for most kids way before COVID. Smartphones + helicopter parenting = absolutely nothing unscheduled or unsupervised.

I'd never want to be young today.

[Mik]

Yep. We were beyond free range kids.

[Catseye3]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Explosion:

Smartphones + helicopter parenting = absolutely nothing unscheduled or unsupervised.

Oh god, yes. I was a latchkey kid and glad of it. And I and my pals would roam around the neighborhood for hours with no accounting to anybody about where we went or what we did. (Like Rainman said, it was never anything bad.) I'd come home and they'd ask, did you have a good day? I'd go, yep! And that was the end of that exchange.

It was great.

[Mik]

I wasn't a latchkey kid. We just had total freedom to roam the creeks and fields and woods. When we got into adolescent years we roamed town. And we were bad. Very. But we learned to be self reliant and to take the consequences of our decisions.

[Aqua Letifer]

Growing up, our driveway was pretty much on the "end county maintenance" sign on the road. Our nearest neighbor was a mile away. My best friend growing up was my age and lived two houses down. We got into a LOT of shit, but only after his farm chores got done, which was never negotiable. With the two of us, though, it made for quick work and hell, a lot of it was fun anyway.

I wouldn't trade any of that for any scenario today, I don't care what it is. I was lucky as hell I grew up in BFE.

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Explosion:

I think it's fair to say that my daughter very much needs to be back in school for her Junior year next September. Not sure how we're going to handle it at this point, TBH.

Luke’s a Senior now. We’ve got no idea how losing the last 4 months is going to affect things. The Junior year is normally much more important. Now? Who knows?

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Explosion:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Explosion:

I think it's fair to say that my daughter very much needs to be back in school for her Junior year next September. Not sure how we're going to handle it at this point, TBH.

Luke’s a Senior now. We’ve got no idea how losing the last 4 months is going to affect things. The Junior year is normally much more important. Now? Who knows?

I think one of the major advantages you have is that this is a global problem. Many, many kids across the country are in the same or worse position. Means there's a great incentive for schools to figure out a solution, and for universities to be flexible if they plan on having any students.

[Doctor Phibes]

It's not the missing lessons that worries me so much as the impact on being in the house the whole time with only online contact

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Explosion:

It's not the missing lessons that worries me so much as the impact on being in the house the whole time with only online contact

Well, probably not for too long a time at this point (I keep drawing comparisons to blackout drills during WWII), and the internet's not nearly the same thing but it does help.

I haven't seen my relatives at all this year and it really sucks. But, we do FaceTime once a week, and that helps.